I need a device to send me a message/email/notification when the power comes back

[Bassem]

I want to receive some kind of notification when a plug in my house receives power,

We lose power constantly,

any idea how to do that? 

 

[Dedayog]

2 minutes ago, Bassem said:

I want to receive some kind of notification when a plug in my house receives power,

We lose power constantly,

any idea how to do that? 

 

Get a wifi plug that connects to an app on the phone.  Kasa, Amazon, etc.

 

Kasa can be set to pop a notification when it's turned on or off IIRC.

[mMontana]

UPS+Raspberry+NUT

[Bassem]

5 hours ago, mMontana said:

UPS+Raspberry+NUT

can you tell me more, or direct me to a youtube video? thanks

[Bassem]

5 hours ago, Dedayog said:

Get a wifi plug that connects to an app on the phone.  Kasa, Amazon, etc.

 

Kasa can be set to pop a notification when it's turned on or off IIRC.

I'm checking

[mMontana]

Long story (almost) short.

Raspberry is powered from the UPS, and also connected via to USB to it. And NUT, aka Network UPS Tools, part of several linux distro, including raspbian, could send email every time the power is missing.

If put close to the CPE/ISP provided router, put also under UPS, could deliver messages when the power is missing... and even if internet don't work (need to configure the timeout for trying again to send the message).

 

I forgot to mention: you should buy a UPS which can be used by NUT easily. So before buy: look at NUT project to know which UPSes are finely supported. They are not few, neverthless, it's not all the market.

[wanderingfool2]

15 hours ago, Bassem said:

I want to receive some kind of notification when a plug in my house receives power,

We lose power constantly,

any idea how to do that? 

 

I would say it depends what purpose and how time sensitive it is (also your budget)

 

Like if it's just something like a whole house power outage, where you want to know when it comes back online; I would just have a computer that boots up when power is restored (some have it in bios settings); or something like a rasp pi if you don't want a computer running.

 

From there you just run a script that sends an email on boot.  It's probably the cheapest way I can think of (if you already have something laying around).

 

The thing about UPS/rasp pi/network solution is that starts getting more costly; for I feel not as much benefit unless if lets say speed is needed.

[Bassem]

Found an easy solution:
 

I have a Tapo smart plug, I used IFTTT to send me a notification when the power came back on, and it's working nicely

 

Note: if you want try this you need to set the default plug status to ON, and in IFTTT (IF the Device is on THEN Turn it off AND send a Notification)

[Dedayog]

2 hours ago, Bassem said:

Found an easy solution:
 

I have a Tapo smart plug, I used IFTTT to send me a notification when the power came back on, and it's working nicely

 

Note: if you want try this you need to set the default plug status to ON, and in IFTTT (IF the Device is on THEN Turn it off AND send a Notification)

Didn't know you wanted the device to turn off.  No idea what your use case was for but glad you fixed it.

 

 

[Bassem]

14 hours ago, Dedayog said:

Didn't know you wanted the device to turn off.  No idea what your use case was for but glad you fixed it.

 

 

I didn't want it to turn it off (nothing plugged into it) but if I didn't turn it off, the next time the power came back I would not receive a notification since the device status didn't change

 

my use case: I just want to receive a notification on my phone when the power comes back (We lose power constantly)